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Can you drive a manual transmission? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by raptir@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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And where are you from? And how old? Not "do you" but just if you know how.

I'm in the US, mid 30s and can (and do) drive a manual transmission.

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[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It depends. Semi-nice car? Hands down.

Cheap underpowered econobox? Manual is usually better. They cheap out on the automatic transmission. No es bueno.

Eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_PowerShift_transmission#Faulty_operation

[–] Coeus@coeus.sbs 1 points 1 year ago

I knew someone that has that issue on their Fiesta, luckily that was only for those specific vehicles.

[–] Nighed@sffa.community 1 points 1 year ago

It's the engine size really, I have driven the automatic version of my car (SEAT Mini) and it was awful. However trying a bigger car was much better.